Exeter No. 6 / Execestre / Exonia
INFORMATION
Font ID: 14240EXE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Thomas the Apostle
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Thomas the Apostle
Church Notes: the dedication may have been changed in the mid-17th century from Thomas of Canterbury to Thomas the Apostle -- original medieval church may have been destroyed by floods; re-built in early-15th century; re-built again in mid-17th century
Church Address: 54 Cowick St, Exeter EX4 1AP, UK -- Tel.: +44 1392 437486
Site Location: Devon, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on Cowick Street, Exeter city centre
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Exter
Historical Region: Hundred of Wonford
Additional Comments: disappeared?
Font Notes:
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There are eighteen entries for Exeter [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SX9292/exeter/] [accessed 13 May 2018], of which two mention a church in it. Pevsner (1952) writes: "Font. In a rich neo-Dec[orated] of 1812" [NB: the present church dates from the mid-17th century, but it replaced earlier buildings going back to medieval times; we have no information on the font of the medieval church]
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 461878 5618383
REFERENCES
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, South Devon, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1952, p. 153